Promotion

Here is the Press Release on the wire this week.

Portero, Inc., is pleased to
announce the promotion of Steve P. Francia to the position of Chief
Information Officer (CIO), effective immediately. He will continue to
report to Michael
Sheldon, the
company’s chairman and CEO, and will be responsible for operations and
technology for the company. In this role he will guide web, technology
and infrastructure developments, which will further contribute to rapid
and efficient growth, improved customer satisfaction and real-time
business intelligence.

During the first half of fiscal year 2008, in the midst of a challenging
economy, Portero has experienced explosive growth, exceeding last year’s
revenues by almost 300%. Portero has positioned itself as the premier
online luxury destination and believes that Francia will be critical in
guiding the technology that will define the luxury shopping online.

Steve brings 13 years experience in search, e-commerce and social
networking. He successfully founded a consulting firm, Supernerd, whose
clients included Priceline.com, Toyota, Real Salt Lake and Stanford
University. Most
recently, Francia built Takkle.com as one of the original six employees,
and led it’s development team to launch and through 300,000 registered
users. He has an extensive background on the internet particularly with
e-commerce and social networks. He is a passionate advocate of Open
Source
development, and architected the Zoop
Framework, the first Object
Oriented, and first AJAX
framework
for PHP. Francia holds a BA from Brigham Young
University in
Philosophy.

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About the Author:

Steve Francia has been responsible for two of the largest commercial open
source projects as the current Chief Operator of the Docker Project and the
former Chief Developer Advocate of MongoDB. Steve has also run some of the top
community-based open source projects: spf13-vim, Hugo, Cobra & Viper

He loves open source and is thrilled to be able to work on it full-time and
then some. In writing, Steve tweets as @spf13,
codes on GitHub,
blogs at spf13.com,
connects on LinkedIn,
ocassionally posts on Google+
and has written a few books for O'Reilly.

In person, he enjoys giving talks and workshops and spending time with the
developer community around the world. When not coding, he is usually having fun
outdoors with his wife and four children.